Malcolm In The Middle replaced by Sky News Ireland...

segadreamcast

Who the hell decided this? Malcolm in the Middle was the only thing worth watching at 6:30...

Sky's Irish bulletin to air on Sky One
Boxing Day 2005, 17:52 GMT -- by Neil Wilkes

Sky News' Irish bulletin will simulcast on the localised version of Sky One from next month.

The 30-minute bulletin, anchored by Grainne Seoige, will replace Malcolm in the Middle on Sky One Ireland at 6.30pm on weekdays. The changes come in to effect from Monday, January 9.

The 10pm bulletin will air on Sky News Ireland only

(DigitalSpy.co.uk)

DonkeyStyle \o/

urgh... isn't this what we've got sky news for?

segadreamcast

That's what I thought myself...everyone who has Sky One already has Sky News...

Perhaps with a bit of luck, Malcolm In The Middle will emerge on Sky News at 6:30 ? Goodness knows, it'd probably have more news than Sky "and now for our report on the missing penguin..." News.

J.R.HARTLEY

seems like a desperate attempt to target early simspons watchers (malcolm fans will obviously turn off after a week)

Pigman II

Ah well. God bless my cousin.

flogen

wow. This just shows how bad things are for Sky News Ireland at the moment, I just don't imagine they'll pick up more viewers though, anyone that has Sky One has Sky News too, right?

DonkeyStyle \o/

tbh if I were at all bothered hearing about the humdrum horse-shíte that passes for news I'd be watching it on RTE anyway.

aidan_dunne

Fuppin' baxtards! :mad: Sure 'MITM' is probably one of the last remaining reasons I watch Sky One at all. Apart from that, and maybe only a couple more programmes on the channel, Sky One is pretty crap as it is. And now they want to take away my 'Malcolm' dose just because Sky News Ireland is doing so badly and they're obviously so desperate to get viewers at this stage that they think transferring it over to the main Sky 'entertainment' channel will get those extra viewers to tune in to it. I'm afraid not! I think most will just switch off/switch over. I know I will and I'm afraid not even the allure of Miss Seoige will keep me watching because Sky News Ireland is just plain crap!

It seems to me that this is almost a last ditch attempt by the Sky News Ireland bosses to just delay the inevitable, i.e. the fact that it's doing so badly that it's only a matter of time before it's dropped. If anything, I think this will end up completely backfiring on them and rather than actually delaying the inevitable it will only mean it happens sooner. Personally, I give this exercise 6 months before it either leads to Sky News Ireland transferring back across to Sky News or it being dropped altogether.

tvnutz

Is this repeats of Malcolm being replaced? When is the new series starting? Thats what Im interested in.

Creamy Goodness

don't know about the new series of malcolm but they are always shown on sundays at 7pm so no chance of it replacing that

byte

As far as I know, people with Sky digital can go tune in Sky One UK, via Add Channels menu, it used to work anyway!

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No good if you're on cable though!

tippguy

but sky's flagship show live at five is also shown on sky three. they show sky movies show spotlight on sky news & any time there is a major news story sky news is shown on sky entertainment channels. don't understand how this shows that its about to go. if thats the case is jeremy thompson & live at 5 about to go aswell! i think not

segadreamcast

Sky Three does not equal Sky One. Clearly Sky, in my opinion, are desperate to give this show any coverage possible.

...Do you have any idea what the ratings are/were like for Sky News Ireland tippguy? They were, at last check, actually *lower* than they previously were for just normal British Sky News in that slot...

EDIT: Actually, on viewing your previous posts, I'm just wondering if you have a vested interested in Sky News Ireland? You've jumped to its defence more than once now...?

tippguy

yes i am defending it because i know its good. those ratings you have are over a year old. viewing figures have jumped dramatically in the last 12 months according to ac neilsen. you'd better get your facts straight before you speak!!

limerick_man

well thats great then! but if i want to watch it i'll watch it, if not i wont... simple as that, if sky put it on all their channels i'll just watch a different network!
Its not like because its on Sky 1 as well as Sky News, I'm suddenly going to watch it!!!

segadreamcast

tippguy wrote:

yes i am defending it because i know its good. those ratings you have are over a year old. viewing figures have jumped dramatically in the last 12 months according to ac neilsen. you'd better get your facts straight before you speak!!

Fair enough. Dramatically? Care to show me your source/statistics? Just out of interest like. You seem to be awfully well informed, and you still haven't answered my question about having a vested interest...

I'd have to agree with limerick_man *falls over* .

Lochaber

tippguy wrote:

yes i am defending it because i know its good. those ratings you have are over a year old. viewing figures have jumped dramatically in the last 12 months according to ac neilsen. you'd better get your facts straight before you speak!!

Ok, not trying to be hostile here but money where your mouth is, what are the Sky News Ireland ratings for this month and 12 months ago...?

As far as I can see from medialive.ie Sky News peak time shares have been

2003 - 1.2%
2004 - 0.9%
2005 - 1.1%

So to me that would suggest no dramatic changes...

limerick_man

Sky news ireland isnt 3 yrs old!!!!

Firewalkwithme

Malcolm in the Middle was on Sky One at 6pm last night before the news so it's still being shown. Did they used to show 2 episodes of it from 6 to 7?

Mossy Monk

they do in the UK. the Irish version will be skipping an episode of series 6 every evening. i would like to know how many people are actually watching sky News Ireland through Sky One. the numbers are still small i'd say

tippguy

well according to this weeks sunday world newspaper 'the twice nightly news bulletin is clearly on the up' and they ask the question how long they can hold on to seoige. a few weeks back the sunday independant had an interview with her and said how viewing figures were climbing dramatically. no unfortunatly i don't have any shares in sky guys but if i did i'd wudn't have te to go onto these forums

Mossy Monk

but it still doesnt say how many people watch it. i wonder what the viewing figures for RTÉ News, TV3 News and Sky News Ireland are like in multi channel homes that receive all three

Lochaber

limerick_man wrote:

Sky news ireland isnt 3 yrs old!!!!

Well yeah but there aren't figures for Sky News Ireland out in the public so the only figures to go on are the peak time figures from medialive.ie.

Sky News Ireland is on twice during peak time so if Sky News Ireland figures have "increased dramatically" you'd expect that they would have had an effect on Sky News peak time in general... So if there was a dramatic increase you would expect that the figures from before Sky News Ireland started and after would be different... so I was just saying that this doesn't seem to be the case...

But since we don't have Sky News Ireland specific figures it's all just inference... anyone out there willing to provide them?

tippguy

but nobody sits down and watch's news for hours on end so really the only reason thats peek time is because thats when most people are finished work and go home. it would be very hard to determine sky news ireland viewing figures with all the people that watch it internationally, on sky news active, on sky news itself and of course on sky one